Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / December 2004

I have a PC laptop and I've found a small mike that works fine with it.
I can't get the same mike to work n the powerook.
should it work ?
thanks

I have gotten a pismo with 10.3.7 and as I already wrote I think it has
an internal wireless card. At least in the apple profiler it says under
PC/PCI Card: "PC1211-10". It seemed to me from investigations I made on
google, that this must be one of the orinoco cards. But I cannot ...

My ibook on wakeup sometimes (~50-50 chance) thrashes the disk at an
approximately one second period. This goes on for around half an hour
and during this interval the cursor can be moved and the Apple menu
will respond very slowly. If I wait long enough this strange behavior

My son-in-law wants a new 60 or 80 GB hard drive for his 667 TiBook.  I
can find a 4200 RPM 80 GB for the same price as a 7200 RPM 60 GB. He
does some digital video as a hobby.  Is the drive speed at all
important?  He has a huge CD collection he stores, as well as many,

Constant "buzzing" sound from iBook
I have an iBook G4 1,2 ghz with a 60g HD and I have a constant
"buzzing" sound from the left part of the book, where the hd is.
Whether this is the fan or not I'm not sure, but it's starts as soon as

I held off on 10.3.6 because of all of the battery problems that people
commented on here.  Has anyone loaded up 10.3.7 and how is it
performing.  Safe to load?

I don't suppose this post will serve any useful purpose, but I just
wanted to boast that I'll soon be getting an iBook!  This is a huge
step for me -- I used to be one of those irritating Windows-loving,
Mac-bashing people.  However, after using an iBook for just a short

STIFF TRACKPAD BUTTON TITANIUM PB 1 GHZ?
Anyone notice a very stiff trackpad button on the Tit. PB 1GHz models?
Mine is very stiff, and painful to use for long periods....
On an ergonomic note...  what's the proper trackpad use?

I am planning to switch from pc to mac and would
appreciate any advice on purchasing an Apple iBook.
I have been looking at the 14.1" iBook
specifications:

I am having random issues with my iPod showing up as "User Data" in
iTunes. This renders it pretty much useless as it will not sync and I
cant access the disk view. I am running firmware 2.2 and iTunes 4.5 on
Windows XP Pro. I have already tried closing the iTunes process and

im sure some of you have heard about the freeipods going on now (this
is only for USA though)
i got mine from freeipods.com but took me around 2 months to get it!
many think its totally BS but just do a little search on google for

Need to upgrade my wife's iBook's hard drive & want to go to 60 GB from
the stock IBM Travelstar 20 GB. The larger Travelstars from Hitachi look
good & a little faster (5400 rpm vs 4200) but I'd really like to
maintain the quietness of the original disk. Does anybody have

I would like to be able to use a USB printer (HP psc-1210v) from my PB
without having to wire it to the USB port.  I have seen a number of WiFi
print servers advertised, but reviews often site the difficulty of getting
them to work with specific setups which the manufacturer of ...

I have moved my itunes music files to an external bootable firewire HD
as the internal HD on my ibook is only 9GB. However, when I boot up
from the INTERNAL disc, with the external HD not mounted, my own User
folder shows 3GB in size even though though its contents are much